Animal rights are back on the agenda of the overwhelming jewish ‘British’ government… well… sort of.
A new ‘animal rights’ white paper has been issued and while it is clearly a desperate attempt to get some kind of popularity for Keir Starmers flailing and increasing Orwellian regime with completely ridiculous things – like banning trail hunting – (1) being included; Selina Scott writing in the ‘Daily Mail’ has picked up an interesting lacunae in the white paper in the form of the religious slaughter of meat animals conducted by Muslims and jews. (2)
Now Scott is – to her credit – well aware of how much of a fine line she is walking in her opinion piece since she mentions both Halal and shechita but since this is the ‘Daily Mail’; Scott has to be careful not to offend jews but she can attack Muslims all she wants.
Thus, Scott has to contrive some way to make it about Muslims and as little about the jews as possible. This she does by trying to play the numbers game.
She writes that:
‘UK law requires animals to be stunned before slaughter, but an exemption is reserved for both ‘schechita’ (Jewish) and some ‘halal’ (Muslim) methods.
And the latter is by far the larger market for this produce, catering to a UK Muslim population of four million people that has almost doubled from a decade ago – a trend that has been mainly driven by the rise in legal and illegal immigration. By comparison, the Jewish population numbers over 277,000.
So while the RSPCA says only 12 per cent of halal meat is not pre-stunned (and no schechita animals are pre-stunned) that still amounts to what the Food Standards Agency estimates as some 30 million chickens, sheep, goats and cattle killed while fully conscious in 2024.
Other welfare organisations put the figure higher, possibly up to as much as 100 million.
And just as alarming, according to the National Secular Society, these animals are now being fed in ever growing numbers into our hospitals, supermarkets, prisons, kebab shops and other outlets in the food chain without any of us being made aware of it.’ (3)
This is true as far as it goes but the problem is that Scott’s argument here is simply dishonest in that she cites the issue as being pre-stunning (basically rendering the meat animal unconscious before you kill it). Now if we use the RSPCA’s figures cited by Scott that 12 percent of Halal meat is not pre-stunned – and if we ignore her vague claim that ‘some put it much higher’ – then that means that 88 percent of Halal meat is pre-stunned.
As far as it goes then the problem isn’t really Halal here if we are just talking about pre-stunning and yes it could be better, but even if it is double what the RSPCA think the figure is and 24 percent of Halal meat is not pre-stunned then that still means 76 percent of it is (which completely disrupts Scott’s argument on this point).
It wouldn’t be hard nor difficult to enforce a stunning requirement upon Halal meat in the UK although to be honest I see no reason for providing Halal meat in the UK as there shouldn’t be Muslims in Britain in my view. This issue was pointed out in the 1930s by Arnold Leese – himself a well-respect veterinarian – in his pamphlet ‘The Legalised Cruelty of Shechita: The Jewish Method of Cattle-Slaughter’ where he noted:
‘The excuse is that to the Jew and to the Mahomedan, the slaughter of food‑animals has to be conducted as a religious rite; and that this rite does not allow of the humane process of stunning the animal before its throat is cut.
Actually, Mahomedans willingly waive their religious objections to stunning the animals, and I have myself found that in the East they are easily persuaded to allow animals destined for their food to be shot through the head provided the throat is severed (with the utterance of a prayer) immediately afterwards, whilst the blood can still flow freely.
In a letter to the R.S.P.C.A. the Imam of Woking Mosque wrote on 4th September, 1928, that in his opinion the use of the Humane Killer (a stunning instrument) does not collide with the instructions given in the Koran.
But in the case of the Jew, the animal‑protection societies have been faced with an obstinate refusal to acquiesce in the abolition of this cruel “religious” custom, despite the fact that every Jew living in Britain, whatever the law may now say, is a stranger and an alien. Even stunning by electricity has been declared inadmissible by the Rabbis.’ (4)
Leese’s point here is far more accurate than Scott’s since Scott tries to dance around the fact that all kosher meat is non-stunned by saying more Halal meat is non-stunned than kosher meat in terms of sheer numbers – true – but this completely ignores the proportions in that 100 percent of kosher meat is non-stunned – which Scott is well aware of – (5) while only 12 percent (or if we double it and use 24 percent) of Halal meat is non-stunned. Then clearly the problem is kosher not Halal since the problem with Halal is simply a legislation change and then enforcement.
The problem with kosher meat is that jews refuse to have the animals it comes from pre-stunned whatsoever prior to slaughter.
As to Scott’s point about Halal meat being fed into the non-Muslim meat supply chain without being labelled for what it is; the situation – according to her own source (the National Secular Society) – is actually far worse with kosher meat.
Since as they explain:
‘A report published this week by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said 51% of cows slaughtered by traditional Jewish (shechita) methods during a survey by the Food Standards Agency were rejected as not meeting religious requirements but “fit for wider consumption”.
Forty-three per cent of shechita-slaughtered sheep were also rejected.
When the same survey into slaughterhouses was conducted in 2018, 15% of cattle and 27% of sheep slaughtered for kosher meat were rejected.
Additionally, the hindquarters of cattle, sheep and goats slaughtered by shechita are not considered kosher and are routinely sold on the non-Jewish market. The report said kosher food business operators provided “no meaningful information” when asked about the destination of meat from the hindquarters. It said it is “unclear whether hind quarters are sent on for wider consumption”.
It has been estimated that less than half of the meat from animals slaughtered by shechita is sold in kosher shops, according to the RSPCA.
The figures also revealed that the exports of non-stun meat have increased, leading to the RSPCA calling for a ban on such exports.’ (6)
We can thus see that less than half of kosher meat ends up in kosher shops while large sections of the animals slaughtered according to shechita – and thus not pre-stunned – and 51 percent of cows as well as 43 percent of sheep slaughtered according to shechita were considered ‘treif’ (i.e., not kosher) and were then sold to the non-jewish market. This not means more animals than necessary are being slaughtered according to shechita in the UK but also most of that meat is ended up in the non-jewish market as if had been slaughtered humanely.
Indeed if we just do the numbers for a moment: then if there are four million Muslims and roughly 300,000 jews – Scott’s argument assumes they are all religiously observant so we will do the same – then only 480,000 of those Muslims are eating non-stunned meat while all 300,000 jews are doing so, which then shows the problem is – in simple numerical terms – roughly the same.
And if we add in that the amount of kosher slaughter that is considered ‘treif’ – plus all the additional cuts of meat that jews cannot eat according to the halakha around kashruth – then that adds roughly 45 percent more to the butcher’s bill of animals slaughtered by the jews (the equivalent of 135,000 people) that in turn means that jews are slaughtering animals at an equivalent rate to having a population of 435,000, while non-stunned Halal slaughter is only operating a little bit above that at 480,000.
So thus we can see that once per capita and other considerations are taken into account then Scott’s ‘argument’ evaporates in a puff of smoke.
This is why the National Secular Society, the RSPCA and Scott all want this non-stunned meat (both Halal and kosher) to be labelled for what it is so consumers can make an informed decision; a position that is widely supported even among MPs (7) but yet the British government absolutely refuses to do this. (8)
Indeed, the British government has outrighted cited ‘religious sensitivities’ as their ‘reason’ for not doing so (9) but as we have seen these aren’t in truth those of Muslims because they aren’t particularly averse to pre-stunning animals for Halal meat but rather the British government means the ‘religious sensitivities’ of the jews.
Since to address the issue of non-stunned meat means to address the issue of kosher meat itself and also by labelling it: to likely significant increase the price of kosher meat as meat processors will be far less inclined to purchase animals slaughtered according to shechita (since customers will likely vote with their wallets away from such products) and thus it will become and more expensive for jews to purchase kosher meat.
This is why jews have been pushing so hard to make as many things kosher-certified as possible because it is a way to bring down the ‘price of being kosher’. (10)
The other reason is that shechita – along with infant circumcision – is a long-time weak point for the jewish community that is easily legislated against, and which has major repercussions for jewish religious observance. (11)
The jews are aware of this and accordingly throw a lot of money and resources into defending shechita as well as infant circumcision because if these fall; then it will cause major ructions within the jewish community not just in terms of religious observance, but then all of a sudden, a lot of rabbis and jews will become unemployed. Since there will no longer be a significant need for schochetim (jewish ritual slaughterers) or mohels (since adult circumcisions need to be performed as true medical procedures not amateur back-room jobs) but also because then there will no longer be large inflows of money from the kosher food tax to pay for rabbinical life and lobbying for more money so the axe of financial austerity will begin to be felt among the jews.
This is why jews are so avidly and solidly opposing any law outlawing non-stunned meat in the UK because if such a law were to be introduced and enforced then it would likely be the beginning of the end for jewish power in Britain.
References
(1) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9y20j259o
(2) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-15452897/SELINA-SCOTT-Labours-new-12-500-word-animal-welfare-paper-single-mention-barbaric-halal-slaughter.html
(3) Idem.
(4) Arnold Leese, 1940, ‘The Legalised Cruelty of Shechita: The Jewish Method of Cattle-Slaughter’, 1st Edition, Imperial Fascist League London, pp. 1-2
(5) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-15452897/SELINA-SCOTT-Labours-new-12-500-word-animal-welfare-paper-single-mention-barbaric-halal-slaughter.html
(6) https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2022/08/over-half-of-kosher-slaughtered-cows-rejected-by-jewish-authorities
(7) https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/06/mps-back-labelling-for-non-stun-meat
(8) https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2024/03/nss-slams-government-for-backtracking-on-non-stun-slaughter-labels; https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2026/01/include-religious-slaughter-in-animal-welfare-strategy-nss-urges
(9) https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2026/01/include-religious-slaughter-in-animal-welfare-strategy-nss-urges
(10) On this please see my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/the-kosher-food-tax-comes-to-beer
(11) On this see Robin Judd, 2007, ‘Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843–1933’, 1st Edition, Cornell University Press: Ithaca
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